Compounding device.



H. BECKNER & R. M. GERBER COMPOUNDING DEVICE.

APPLICATI 0N FILED OCT. 26, 1914.

1 177,295 Patented Mar. 28, 1916.

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- :UNITED STATES PATEN O EE HENRY Buc ner. AND nALrH M. GERB R, or CINCINNATI, oHIo.

To all whom it may concern:

.Be it known that we, HENRY BEGKNER and RALPH M. GERBER, citizens of the United .States, residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have jointly invented certain new and useful Improvenients in Compounding Devices, of which the following is a specification. Our invention relates to a compounding device, having the purpose, for instance, of compounding butter and milk, that is to say, mixingthe butter with milk for forming a homogeneous fatty mass of a bulk embodying both the butter and the milk and serving the purposes of the butter. The device is intended primarily for home use for reducing the'high cost of living. The device may: be used for analogous or other pur poses for which it is adapted. Y 7

It isthe object of our invention to provide a device of the character; stated having novel parts and arrangements of parts for insuring easy operation and quick accomplishment of its purposes;

The invention will be further readily understood from the following description and claims, and from the drawings, in which latter: 1

Figure 1 is a side elevation of our improved device, showing the container and the closure thereof in central vertical section on the line -11 of Fig.2. Fig. 2 is a. horizontal section of our improved device, taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section of the same, taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section of the same, taken on a line corresponding to the line 44 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a vertical section of the beater parts taken on the line 55 of Fig. 4; and, Fig. 6 is a perspective view of one of the beater-blades. 4

11 represents the container, shown as a glass jar, having an opening 12 and a cover 13, the cover being secured to the container by means of a screw connection 14. The container is preferably provided below its mouth or opening with a neck 15 having an inner tapering face. A rod 18 is arranged to have up and down movement in the cover and is provided at its lower end with a beater 19 arranged to beat the material to be acted on located in the container, which material may be a mixture of butter and milk for compounding the same. The rod Specification of Letters'iatent.v

the twisted rod 18 turns.

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Patented Ma ZS, 1916.

Application filed October as, 1914. Serial No. 868,644.

is shown as a twisted rod. It is arranged to pass through a bearing 20 in a bearing plate 21 rigidly secured to the cover, as by rivets. 22, and through a bearing 23 in an upwardly bowed cross-strap 24, the sides 25 whereof have feet 26 securely attached tothe cover, asby means of the rivets 22.

The bearing 23 .is spaced from the cover and is preferably a round bearing, in which The rod 18 is shown as square in cross-section. The walls of the bearing 20 are correspondingly formed, namely square, so that when the rod passes through-this bearing lengthwise it is caused to rotate for rotating the beater 19.

The upper end of the rod is provided with a handle 28 having journal-connection 29 therewith. A helical spring 30 surrounds the rod and .eXtends lengthwise thereof and is located between the crossstrap 24 andla collar 31 rigid with the upper end of the rod, upon which the handle 28 turns. The handle .28 is shown as a pusherknob for conveniently operating the beater, which is accomplished by pushing upon the handle with the hand, the spring retracting the rod lengthwise to normal position for locating the beater in the upper end of the container.

The beater is shown as comprising a plurality of blades 33, 34, having'relative movement between them for increasing or decreasing the extent to which they spread for being readily received through the opening 12 and arranged to spread in the container for forming said beater of greater width than the width of said opening.

The blades are provided with openings 36 and with downwardly extending wings 37 and with upwardly extending wings 38, thesewings preferably slanting outwardly in their upward and outward directions, for forming propeller-like wings for readily agitating and swirling the contents of the container, these contents being also permitted to pass through the openings for aiding in the beating of the same.

The blades are provided respectively with slots 39, 40, through which the rod is received, the side walls of the slots impinging the sides of the rod for preventing turning of the blades upon the rod. The blades are located between washers 41, 42, held in place at the lower end of the rod,

as by providing said rod adjacent to its lower end with outwardly extending prongs 43 and upsetting-the lower end of said rod,

as shown at 44. The washers form guiding means for the blades for permitting said blades to. move in their planes inwardly and outwardlyfor increasing or decreasing the distances between their outer ends. A spring 45 is secured to the respective blades, as by being received under struck up lugs 46, 4:7, struck up from said blades for locating said spring.

If it is desired to insert the beater into the container, the blades are pushed inwardly, so that their outer edges are sufficiently close together to pass through the opening 12. When they have passed through this opening, the blades will spread by reason of the action of the spring 45, so that the beater will have a diameter greater than the opening 12' and be approximately of the diameter of the body of the container. After the mixture has been compounded, which in the case of equal parts of butter and milk is accomplished in a few minutes, the beater is-withdrawn after unfastening of the cover, the'outer edges of the beater blades contacting the sloping wall of the neck 15 for causing approach between the outer edges of said blades forpermitting the same to mouth.

The bearin -plate 21 is preferably suiii- Y ciently large so that its peripheral edge is received between the upper edge of the mouth of the container and the top of the cover for clamping the plate between the container and cover for aiding in rigidity of the parts.

Our improved device forms a simple; and

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pass through the container effective device 0f few' parts substantially constructed and economically produced.

Having thus fully described our inven tion, what We claim as new and desire to- .45 1. In a device of the character described;

secure by Letters Patent, is:

2. In a device of the character: de-V scribed, the combination of a container having an opening, a cover for said opening, means for securing said cover to said container, a rod, said rod and. having connections for turning said rod upon longitudinal movement thereof, and a beater, said beater comprising a plurality of blades having 'openingsand upwardly wings, said blades having slide-connection with the lower end of-said rod and with each other for relative movement of said blades in parallel planes, and a spring normally causing outward movement of said blades.

In vtestimony whereoflwe have hereunto signed our namesv in the presence of"v two subscribing Witnesses:

HENRY BECKNER! RALPH My GERBER.

Witnesses: CHARLES E. WEBER. THERESA SILBER;

Washington, D. C.

automatically I relatively cover i V and downwardly extending edges'forming: 

